Apple support has always been the worst in the industry.
<https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-security-update-policy-only-the-latest-oses-are-fully-patched/>
<https://hothardware.com/news/apple-admits-only-fully-patches-security-flaws-in-latest-os-releases>
<https://screenrant.com/apple-product-security-update-lifespan/>

But maybe no more based on this new development today...
*No more free Windows 10 upgrades*
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/its-official-no-more-free-windows-10-upgrades/>

"The party's over. After seven years of looking the other way,
Microsoft has finally announced that it's closing the loophole
that allowed PCs running Windows 7 and Windows 8.x to upgrade for free."

Up until now, Windows full hotfix support was 12 years, and then 10 years,
and then 10 years again (all of which was via free upgrades), which means
that many of us have had full hotfix support for Windows of about 25 years.
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-you-can-still-get-a-free-windows-10-upgrade/>

Per machine!
"If you had a PC running Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1,
you could upgrade to Windows 10 for free."

Compare that to the atrociously short Apple support where Apple only fully
supports one release at a time (Windows fully supports more than one!) and
where the only release that has full support is only the latest release.
*Distinguishing software updates from upgrades*
<https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/about-software-updates-depc4c80847a/>

At this point, if your iPhone is anything older than an XR, it will not be
supported by Apple and since iOS has the most exploits, is likely already
exploited since Apple products have ten time the _active exploits_ too.
<https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog>

Part of the reason Apple products have the most zero-day holes and ten
times the number of exploited vulnerabilities that Apple was told about is
due to the fact only Apple releases the release as a primitive monolith.

This has improved only recently, to Apple's credit, in iOS 16 & iOS 17.
<https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201224>

Before these RSR patches were introduced, Apple had no mechanism for fixing
a bug - they had to build and ship an entire release - which gave the
malware actors plenty of time to exploit - which is why Apple operating
systems are the most exploited (fully ten times more than other OSs are).

On 1/10/2023, Wally J wrote:
Windows support is the best but Android is catching up in that Google
copied Microsoft's successful over-the-internet update of all devices on
the Internet every month. That's a good thing to copy Windows support.

The result of copying what Microsoft did years ago is that all Android 10
and up phones have their security updated monthly - but the updates - like
many Windows updates - only happen during reboot so you need to reboot your
Android 10+ phone once a month to get these latest monthly Mainline
security patches.

As with the Microsoft method that Google successfully copied, these Google
monthly Mainline security update hotfix patches are being uploaded to all
Android's of all makes & models that have Android 10 and up on them.

You can't turn it off.

Google is updating the security and functionality on billions of Android
10+ phones every month that way and Google says they will never stop.

On 4 Oct 2023 at 8:02:20 PM, Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa> wrote:

> Google is updating the security and functionality on billions of Android
> 10+ phones every month that way and Google says they will never stop.

In addition to updating all Android phones monthly for security updates to
the mainline modules, Google announced just today that there will be an
additional 7 years of monthly Pixel carrier software security support.
--
Cheers, Quellen